@Chicky, I think we need an aerial shot (a la Longmeadow) - I can never quite work out how the different parts of your garden relate to each other! It looks enormous and beautiful . Is the wide shot inside the deer-proof fences?
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Today I've been enjoying the flowers of my Pelargonium tomentosum. I don't really grow it for the flowers, rather the scented leaves, but they're exquisite close up.
The Primula vialii I bought at a local open garden plant sale a month ago are peeping out among the Hostas.
And this Philadelphus which has come up from next door is looking very pure.
My volunteer opium poppies are the stars at the moment. The buzzing of the bees as the flowers opened this morning was something to behold - such wild excitement! This is one that is very slightly darker than the rest.
Here they are in what I have realised is a very volunteer-dominated bed - the poppies, the linaria, and the Nicotiana sylvestris over on the right all arrived by themselves from I know not where. The Verbena bonariensis are self sown each year from the original 3 I planted in 2016. The only plants in this shot that I actually put in myself are the Alliums and the sweet peas (there are Echinacea somewhere in there too).
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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@Chicky, I think we need an aerial shot (a la Longmeadow) - I can never quite work out how the different parts of your garden relate to each other! It looks enormous and beautiful
The Primula vialii I bought at a local open garden plant sale a month ago are peeping out among the Hostas.
And this Philadelphus which has come up from next door is looking very pure.
My volunteer opium poppies are the stars at the moment. The buzzing of the bees as the flowers opened this morning was something to behold - such wild excitement! This is one that is very slightly darker than the rest.
Here they are in what I have realised is a very volunteer-dominated bed - the poppies, the linaria, and the Nicotiana sylvestris over on the right all arrived by themselves from I know not where. The Verbena bonariensis are self sown each year from the original 3 I planted in 2016. The only plants in this shot that I actually put in myself are the Alliums and the sweet peas (there are Echinacea somewhere in there too).